Sex doll and legal issues:

The Instagram model says a Chinese company is marketing life-size toy with her head on it, using her name, and with details right down to the beauty mark on her lip

Cohen Aris, 25, told the UK’s ITV television network on Monday that the toy being marketed by Irontech Dolls even shares her name, “Yael.” To leave no further doubt as to the origin of the item’s design, it is being promoted online using real-life images of her, she said.

“It’s not just about a beauty mark and my name, because sex dolls are still just dolls and there is a limit to how much they can look like a human being,” Cohen Aris told ITV’s This Morning show. “But once it was connected to my identity and image and videos, social media, there is no mistake here.”

“I don’t have anything against the sex doll industry; the problem here is they did it without my consent, without my knowledge,” she said. “It’s doubly wrong because it’s connected to my identity — it’s not just a doll that looks like me or inspired by me; they never hid the fact it’s developed from me.”

“No, I think first of all it should get off the shelves, and then maybe we could talk about what happened and how things went wrong and why,” she said. “I’m not talking about compensation, I think learning a lesson from this would be the best thing to come out of this story, and this is also what I hope to achieve by raising awareness — that is what I am trying to pursue.”